Sohei Kamiya's Sanseitō Party won 14 seats in Japan's Upper House elections, appealing to young voters with a "Japanese first ...

For three years, a once fringe opposition party held just one seat in Japan's 248-seat upper house. But on Sunday, Sanseito ...

Sanseitō, an ultranationalist populist party, gained in Japan’s elections after framing immigration as a central issue.

Sanseito, a Japanese populist party that draws inspiration from Donald Trump's politics, is gaining support ahead of Sunday's ...

Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

In Japan's recent parliamentary election, the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to secure a ...

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against “elitism,” “globalism” and immigration.

Sanseito's emergence has caught Japan's community of foreign residents by surprise, with the party's anti-foreigner rhetoric causing concern among many Japanese and non-Japanese alike.

A mix of LDP hubris and inaction contributed to its electoral setback – and the rise of textbook-style populism.

While populism is rising across the world, Japan has so far been immune to it. There is no Japanese equivalent to Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, or Rodrigo Duterte. This, however, seems to be ...

Sanseito, a new far-right party with a charismatic leader, Sohei Kamiya, came up big in Japan's parliamentary election by ...